Cardboard plant box



Patented Oct. 20, 1931 l 1,s2s,44s

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE L GOTTHEIJ' M. SEIDEL, OF NORTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS CARDBOARD' PLANT BOX y `Application filed August 20, 1929, Serial No. 387,155. Renewed September 9, 1931.

This invention relates to paper plant boxes and 10, scored tabs 11 and 12 are connected v and, among other objects, aims to provide an so as to be bent inwardly against the inside improved collapsible paper box intended for of the opposite side wall, as clearly shown use by commercial fiorists, gardeners, and the in Fig. 3. The arrangement is such that like and to raise, transplant or propagate when one end wall is folded or bent across 55 plants. Another aim is to provide a simple, the other and its tab inserted between the strong, durable and inexpensive box made of edge of the other end wall and the inside a single scored sheet of suitable paper. or of the opposite side wall, the sides of the box fiber board so constructed that the blanks are braced 'and the box maintains its proper can be shipped in relatively small cartons or shape. co packages and can be quickly and easily* as- In order to permit water to escape or seep Sembled into boxes as they are required. through the soil in the box, both of the bot- Other aims and advantages of the inventomor end walls are provided with opention will appear in the specification, taken ings 13 which are so arranged that they regis- 15 in connection with-the illustrative emboditer With each other when these walls are ment of the invention shown in the accomfolded inwardly and the box is assembled (see panying drawings wherein:-- v Figs. 2 and Fig. 1 is a perspective view of an assem'- From the foregoing description, it will be bled plant box; i seen that the box blanks may be very easily Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the box shown and economically produced by simple cutting, in Fig. 1; slittingand scoring operations. Moreover,

Fig. 3 is a sectional view through the box the shape of the blank is such that amaximum and showing a plant therein; and number of blanks can be cut from a large Fig. 4 is' a face view of a blank of which sheet of cardboard without producing a great 25 the preferred form of box is made. deal of waste. Furthermore, the boxes can Referring particularly to the drawings, be very easily and quickly assembled by an the preferred form of box there shown is inexperienced workman and can be sold for preferably made of a single sheet of suitable a fraction of the cost of the usual small plant paper board or paper stock conveniently pots ordinarily used by florists, gardeners,

0 composed of tobacco stems or Waste matter plan growers and the like. Also, the boxes containing fertilizing material or insectiare sufficiently strong to withstand a great cides, and it may be coated, impregnated or deal of abuse in shipment and small plants saturated with fertilizing elements and/or can be shipped great distances without mainsecticides or fungicides suitable to the terial injury. The shape of'the assembled 3 needs of the particular plants for which the boxes is such that they may be placed, one 55 Integral bottom wall portions 9 and 10 are Also, the decayed boxes will also fertilize the box is intended. against the other, in large containers, and Referring to the blank shown in Fig. 4, it thereby support the side walls of each other. will-be noted that the single sheet of card- A great advantage in using such fiber or board is there scored to provide side walls 1, pulp boxes, instead of the usual plant pots,

* 2, 3, 4 and 5, the walls 1 and 5 being arranged is that plants or seedlings may be transplantto overlap, so that the outside Wall may be ed in the boxes without disturbing the plant suitably secured to the inside wall by means roots and the boxes will decay sufliciently to of a tab 6, formed by slittingthe `wall 5 at 7, permit the roots to penetrate them before the inserted' into a straight slit 8 in the wall 1. plants have grown to any considerable extent.

connected to the side walls 4 and 5, so that one soil. The pulp or material of which the cardend wall is adapted to be folded inwardly board boxes are formed is of such nature across the other, the blank being suitably that any suitable fertilizing material and/or scored for this purpose. insecticides or fungicides may be incorporat- At the ms of the end wall portions 9 edinit or applied to the surfaces.

Obviously, the present invention is not restricted to the particular embodiment thereof herein shown and described.

What I Claim is A plant cup of the class described comprising a rectangular boX made of a single blank of stiff paper and having an open upper end; a double bottom wall composed of scored extensions in adjacent side waile havlu ing bracing tabs inserted in the box against the other adjacent side walls; and said bottom Wall portions having registering apertures which constitute a drain Opening.

In testimony that I Claim the ;foregoing 15 as my own, I have hereto afixed my signature.

GOTTHELF M. SEIDEL. 

